What does it mean to have a sense of place? Where does it come from? Is it innate and immutable – the result of a perfect collision between environmental, constructed and human elements? Or can it be generated from ‘nothing’, shaped deliberately and consciously?

NGV Design Week: What can art and design bring to our experience of place?

We often think of lobbies and threshold zones ie. entrances, foyers, corridors as transitional spaces: places we pass through. But exactly because they are passed through so often, they carry a strange potency. These are the moments when we shift — from street to interior, from public to private, from one state of mind to another. In these liminal edges, art can do something remarkable: it can draw us in, make us pause, and remind us we are part of a larger narrative…

To be honest the first time I started working with wood I remember thinking— wow there is a lot of measuring...— Olive Gill-Hille

Interview with Lisa Waup